St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-22
A SCANDAL IN THE ARMY.
An Officer ElOped With a Private's
Wife and Is Now in Durance

The rank and file of the army is seldom
called upon to furnish scandal such as is
now being enjoyed by the gossips of two
important military posts-Forts Lyon, Col,
and LeayenWorth, Kan. 1t seems that in Com
pany +, Twentysecond infantry, at Fort
Lyon, there is serving young man named
Jonas A. Roger, to whose wife the first SER
geant (BarretD, of his company, has been
for some time paying marked and subtle at
tention. Barrett being in the enjoyment of a
more princely monthly stipend from the gov
ceiving, and his official position affording
him facilities for getting Roger out of the
way at convenient intervals, by placing him
on guard, fatigue duty, detached service,
ETC., ETC., his margin for making love to the
woman was sufficiently great to enable them
to plan an elopement which they put into
execution almost as soon as planned. The
fact stated having been found out by Royer.he
procured a short furlough and hied him
after the clipping couple, o,ertaking them at
st. Joseph, No. Having secured the arrest
of the first sergeant by the civil authorities
on the charge of desertion, he took his err
ing wife IN charge and proceeded to Fort
LeavenWorth, to the commanding oflcer of
which post he related his narrative and from
whom he secured government transportation
to carry him and wife back to Fort Lyon
In the meantime the first sergeant had been
turned over to the authorities at Fort Leav-
enworth and is in the post guard houSe-a
sadder but wiser man-refecting upon the
result of his conduct and becoming ac-
ings of the prison to which general court
martial will probably assign him for term
of years. Much sympathy is expressed for
Roger, whose future has been so early and
effectually handicapped by the possession of
worthless wife.
A general court martial convened at For
Smelling. of which Lieut.. Col. James J.. Van
Horn: Twenty-tifth infantry, is president
has just acquitted Private Charles E.
Wheeler, of the Twenty-ffth infantry band,
of charges of theft, involving the stealing of
SlO;75 from the money drawer Of the post
traders store at Fort Smelling, and S17 so
from Private Blueford.
Capt. r. w. johnson, assistant surgeon
United States army, and son of Gen. r. W.
johnson, has been ordered from Fort Adams,
X. l., to Bismarck, OAK, as a witness in
case pending before the district court at that
that place.
After the examination at Fort Sully, Oak,
of Henry j. Linweber, Company B, Twelfth
infantry, with view to his transfer to the
hospital corps of the army, he will be sent to
Fort Yates Dak,, for duty at that post.
The leave of absence granted Capt. William
r. Maize, Twentieth infantry, in orders of
the 9TH inst from headquarters, department
OF Dakota, is extended five months, ON sur
geon's certificate of disability.
One-tenth of a $1,000 prize in the last
drawing of the Louisiana lottery has been
paid to Private Hoffman, a member of Light
Battery r, Second artillery, at Fort Leaven-
worth.
Acting Assistant Surgeon, H NJ. Decide,
U. S. A, is relieved from further duty at
Fort Abraham Lincoln, Oak, and will re-
turn to his proper station. Fort Yates Oak.
Maj. William H. Forwood, surgeon United
States army, is relieved from duty at Fort
Meade, OAK, and will come to Fort Smelling
Commissary Sergeant Henry Wilson. now
| at Fort Assiniboine Mont, will go to Camp
| Sheridan, in the National park, Wyo.